Quotes About Expression

Writing a poem is a more personal experience, I think, than writing prose. And perhaps reading a poem is a more personal experience than reading prose, though that's harder to say.

The act of creation can be an extreme violent experience.

People tend to suppress that which they cannot express.

I experience so many feelings and emotions when I tour. It's the most amazing and also the most lonely thing you can do.

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it's the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it's a failure in communication.

The hardest things to do in any art is to risk failure and put yourself out on the line.

It's my failure to sound like my heroes that's allowed me to sound like myself.

The proper use of comments is to compensate for our failure to express ourself in code.

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion

The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure.

Be willing to absorb some risk and failures to allow people freedom to express themselves.

That a viewer does not see what the artist intended does not make the composition a failure... In reality all artists speak first to themselves and then to an audience.

Imagine a painter crucified by his subject!

Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way.

Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.

Racist writing is a craft failure.

We're all trying to be artists making our own unique statements. I think the only real way to do that is through failure.

To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.

Abstraction is an exercise in a pre-assured failure. It is a futile attempt to communicate the non-communicable

It is bound to be a failure, every book is a failure, but I do know with some clarity what kind of book I want to write.